Market Share, Google, and Fancy Dancing
May 6, 2010
What’s a 71 percent market share mean? In search, lots of ad revenue. In other businesses like the old Standard Oil, break up talk. “Google U.S. Search Share Tops 71% In April, Hitwise Reports” contains news that may create more hassles for Google. Microsoft’s Web search folks may be chagrined by Google’s market share but the data creep ever closer to the “m” word that made the old Ma Bell history. For me, the killer passage in the write up was:
Microsoft Bing (MSFT) had 9.43%, down from 9.62%.
The $65 billion Microsoft is losing share. Yahoo is also slumping. The Google keeps on growing.
So what does this mean for competitors? [a] Turn the lawyers and PR people loose on a monopoly campaign, [b| pretend that the gap can be closed, [c] give up, [update the resume], [e] two of the above.
Stephen E Arnold, May 5, 2010
No one paid me t0 write this.
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